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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

It’s likely more than half of adults in the US play video games. About 40% of those play some kind of shooter. There are 258 million adults in the US. That’s ~129 million gamers, and ~51 million “shooters”.

Out of 51 million, they think they can link one to a game and condemn the genre?

Whatever. Try again. The only people that think so are the pearl-clutchers and the press.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (15 children)

This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn't let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game...

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomers' children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn't play anymore

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
What you're saying doesn't make any sense.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my parents are boomers and im a millennial (90)

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's cool. Playing the outlier game could go on all day, but it's obviously not the norm.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok. Maybe it was just me then, but growing up in the 90s there was a push for "video games bad they are violent"

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yea. They've been doing it since the 70's, and are still doing it now by trying to say Among Us made Luigi violent.

That doesn't have anything to do with the millennial or gen z generations. The first "video game generation" was X.

Silent> Greatest> Boomer> X> Millennial> Z

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